🖖 Star Trek 101: What is a Phaser? What is a Phaser? A phaser is a weapon that is available to the crews in case of emergencies or away missions. When the ship is being attacked or invaded, members of the crew can take possession of phasers in order to repel any immediate danger; this is usually done by ‘stunning’ the opponent so as to avoid killing them outright. There is also a ‘kill’ setting for when the enemy is beyond reproach and has to be stopped at all costs, usually in order to prevent

Starfleet weapons: Phaser. Part 1. Maximum setting. If you had fired this, you would have vaporized me." "It's my first ray gun." – Jean-Luc Picard and Lily Sloane, 2063 Source: Star Trek: First Contact. Phasers are the most common and standard direct energy weapon in the arsenal of Starfleet and several other powers. Most phasers are classified as particle weapons and fire nadion particle beams, but some, like the Ferengi hand phaser, are classified as plasma weapons and fired forced plasma bea